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John Dikeman is an American saxophonist currently residing in Amsterdam. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources, John’s playing runs the gamut of improvised music and technique. He is currently active as a member of numerous groups including Cactus Truck, a band made up guitarist/bass guitarist Jasper Stadhouders and Onno Govaert; Universal Indians with Norwegian rhythm section Tollef Østvang and Jon Rune Strøm and often featuring Joe McPhee; the trio Dikeman, Parker, Drake with William Parker and Hamid Drake, and numerous other collaborations including projects with Andrew Barker, Dirk Serries, Steve Noble, Luis Vicente, Alexander Hawkins, Roger Turner, Hugo Antunes, Peter Jacquemyn, Peter Ole Jorgensen, Aleksandar škorić

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Allen Lowe, ROVA, John Dikeman & Jeff Cosgrove

by Maurice Hogue
November 2, 2026

Saxophonist & music historian Allen Lowe has a new three-CD release that's extremely interesting. I Should Have Stayed Dead contains the music that is part of a new documentary film about Lowe's music and battle with cancer. With post-production problems delaying the release of the film, a decision was made to release the music. Guests like ...

Article: Album Review

John Dikeman: No Kings

by John Sharpe
January 7, 2026

Recorded live in 2022, No Kings documents a volatile meeting between a formidable European horn partnership and American free jazz royalty. In 2015, expat American saxophonist John Dikeman initiated a trio with bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake. Five years later, he invited Portuguese trumpeter Luis Vicente to join them, resulting in the quartet heard ...

Album

Old Adam On Turtle Island

By John Dikeman

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Rev - Descent - Choral - Let's Try; Groove - Choral - Manifest.

Album

No Kings!

By John Dikeman

Label: JACC Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: No Kings.

Album

Maxximus

By Tobias Klein

Label: Trytone
Released: 2025
Track listing: Smitten; Sack & Ash; Phoenix; Springend; Annie Golden; The Prvilege of Playing the Wrong Notes.

Article: Album Review

Spinifex: Maxximus

Read "Maxximus" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
November 25, 2025

Spinifex, the Amsterdam sextet formed in 2005 by saxophonist Tobias Klein, has spent two decades rattling jazz conventions with math-metal precision and global rhythmic flair. With trumpeter Bart Maris, tenor saxophonist John Dikeman, guitarist Jasper Stadhouders, bassist Gonçalo Almeida, and drummer Philipp Moser, their live shows ignite like sonic wildfires. Maxximus marks their twentieth anniversary and ...

Article: Album Review

Pat Thomas: HIKMAH

by Mark Corroto
November 8, 2025

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery--except, perhaps, when pianist Pat Thomas takes on the music of jazz legends. In those cases, what emerges is not imitation at all, but transformation. On albums such as Plays the Music of Derek Bailey & Thelonious Monk (FMR, 2008) and Pat Thomas Plays The Duke (New Jazz and ...

Article: Album Review

John Dikeman: Old Adam On Turtle Island

Read "Old Adam On Turtle Island" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
September 13, 2025

Committed improviser John Dikeman assembles a crack Amsterdam domiciled quartet to navigate Old Adam On Turtle Island, a song cycle that probes the intersections of colonization, religion, and their potential to inspire transcendence or tyranny. The framework is deliberately loose: a schematic more than a score, allowing the musicians to chart the course collectively. Themes emerge ...

Article: Festivals Talking

Moers Festival Interviews: Bart Maris

by Martin Longley
June 6, 2025

Bart Maris is a heroic Belgian trumpeter, deeply committed to the art of improvisation, treading a wilder jazz path, and possessing a mighty appetite for road-life, gigging prolifically and always seeking out unfamiliar collaborators, knowing that this act will force his own playing into a continual sense of vital change. Therefore, he is a fine choice ...